Reply #1: NY Times:Lieberman Supported Medicare Expansion [View All]

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/14/us/politics/AP-US-Lieberman-Medicare.html?_r=1

Sen. Joe Lieberman was for a Medicare expansion before he was against it.

Democrats circulated video Monday from a Connecticut newspaper's interview in September showing Lieberman voicing support for a so-called Medicare buy-in allowing uninsured people as young as 55 to purchase coverage.

The Connecticut independent, whose vote is critical to the health care reform bill's prospects, had threatened Sunday to join Republicans in opposing health legislation permitting a buy-in.

Lieberman's spokesman Marshall Wittmann said Lieberman's comments were made before the Senate health care bill, which includes health insurance subsidies, was finalized. Wittmann said Lieberman believes the subsidies make a Medicare buy-in program redundant.